The Wichita Falls paper reported that Staples, who is mulling a run for Texas lieutenant governor in 2014, “spoke of dangers facing Texas farmers and ranchers whose property is near the border. He talked about ranchers on their own land being fired upon by drug cartel members. Staples mentioned instances of ranchers being driven off their ranch land at gunpoint, the locks to their fence gates cut off and replaced with locks by the drug cartels.”

According to the Times Record News, Staples declared that President Obama, in his speech last week near the Texas-Mexico border in El Paso, “never mentioned the ongoing drug war.”

Fact check: That’s not quite right. In his speech, Obama said

The most significant step we can now take to secure the borders is to fix the system as a whole so that fewer people have the incentive to enter illegally in search of work in the first place. This would allow agents to focus on the worst threats on both of our — both sides of our borders, from drug traffickers to those who would come here to commit acts of violence or terror.

In Wichita Falls, Staples also mocked Obama’s comments about having more federal “boots on the ground” along the border with Mexico than ever before.

“The president said we have more Border Patrol agents than ever before,” the Times Record News quoted Staples as saying. “It’s like telling a person with a broken leg, ‘I’ve given you five aspirin. What more do you want?’ I say it’s not working.”